According to BA’s prospect blog, the Mets have signed Val Pascucci to a Minor League deal.
Hat tip to the great Nate Freiberg and Bobby Valentine in the comments section for the heads up.
Nate is, I should mention, the person who first tipped me off to Pascucci’s existence in the first place, long before he ever [...]

Market inefficiency is the new black.
Moneyball, despite what Murray Chass thinks, was not about VORP. It was about one general manager identifying a widespread anomaly in baseball’s marketplace and exploiting it. At the time, players with high on-base percentages were not paid in accordance with the way they helped their teams win, so Billy Beane [...]

The show Lost starts up again tonight. I’m psyched.
For a while, that wasn’t necessarily the case. This will be the final season of the show — a longform mystery rooted in dime-store philosophy and science fiction — and after the end of the last season, I feared the show’s myriad still-unanswered questions could be answered [...]

I’m still trying to process this whole J.J. Putz thing.
The Mets’ much-heralded eighth-inning guy who wasn’t, the dude for whom they traded a slew of young players, came out yesterday and said that the Mets never gave him a physical immediately after the trade, despite the bone spur in his elbow that hampered his 2008 [...]

Criticism of Stephon Marbury’s debut in China: He was too unselfish.
“If bees did that, I’d fall off my chair.”
Jose Reyes is running healthy, to the sweet sounds of cheesy stock-music metal. He’s also striking a tractor tire with a sledgehammer, which is massively important.
The snowman lady from the Daily News last week is back, but [...]